News

AA Password reset email caused chaos!!

It’s been reported that the car insurance giant the AA, caused themselves all sorts of issues on Monday after accidentally sending a password update email to users. The alert that went out resulted in many motorists trying to login and change their passwords.

All it did was cause mayhem which overloaded the servers and made them inaccessible to the users. Users were then furious because they couldn’t access their profiles and they feared that hackers had gained access to their accounts. The AA have confirmed that nothing was changed, and no attack happened the downtime was purely down to the servers becoming overloaded.

ITWiser offer a wide range of services and solutions that can help prevent issues like this from affecting you and your business. We offer internal security audits and external security audits, these audits are designed to highlight issues inside and outside your network. For more information on these or on any of our other services please get in touch today.

Latest News

It has been reported that hackers are trying to break into email accounts within the Scottish parliament (http://www.parliament.scot/). The unidentified hackers (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/hacking) are doing a similar attack to the one that happened against Westminster.
Holyrood ..

It has been reported that customers of the UK financial services company Ffrees (https://www.ffrees.co.uk/login), said they weren’t aware of any breaches until months after the event. 4 months after the event took place a security researcher got in touch with the people affected. The same ..

A potential state sponsored cyberattack that was aimed at 4000+ infrastructure firms has been blamed on a lone Nigerian cyber criminal. The campaign started back in April this year and it has targeted very large international organisations. The organisations are in the manufacturing, oil, gas, b ..